Pregnancy at 24 Weeks Pregnancy Update Pregnancy Tips

Hello beautiful mamas and mamas-to-be. Pregnancy is the gift that keeps on giving and this week I got a friend. It is story time for my 22 to 24 week pregnancy update coming up. Hello beautiful mamas and mamas-to-be. Welcome back to my channel. If you happen to be new here my name is Nicole. I'm a mama. I'm a pediatric occupational therapist as well as an intentional parenting coach. I'm also a certified lactation counselor and on this channel you're going to find strategies, tips, and my life experience to help make motherhood more fun, more easy, and less stressful. So if that sounds like something you're into do me a favor and hit the subscribe button below. Alright guys so this is my 22 to 24 week pregnancy update and it just keeps getting more fun. As you've probably just been staring at for the past minute as I did this intro I have a heart monitor now because forgive me if I told this story in my last pregnancy update. I will make it quick. About two weeks ago I was hanging out with Kai in the backyard. It was a very warm day and I know that I don't do well in the heat and pregnancy. My best guess is my blood pressure lowers some and my heart just has a harder time like keeping up especially if I'm like up and about. I wasn't even up and about. I was sitting down spraying Kai. I got up because I was starting to feel hungry and thirsty. I ran inside to grab a snack and my hearing started to go. Like I started to hear ringing in my ears and then my vision started getting blotchy and I was like oh this is no good no boy no. So I start trying to make my way back to the bedroom and I kind of fell into the door and fell onto the bed. I was home alone with Kai so I started to panic. I got a little scared and I was lying down and I just I was I felt like I was going to pass out. The funny thing about this is about a week or so prior to this event I had actually taught Kai how to contact emergency services on my cell phone should I need help and so as my hearing is going and as my vision is going I had like a moment to think. I was like do I call Kai in? I don't want him to come inside and find me just like passed out. I don't really know how this is gonna go. So I called to Kai in the backyard. I'm like Kai can you please come here? He's like no you gotta wait mom. I'm busy watering the plants and I just thought this is how the story goes. Ain't that something? But anyways after lying down for a few moments my hearing started to come back and my vision started to come back and my heart rate slowed down. I was super grateful for that but it definitely scared me and when I called the doctor they wanted me to come in and have an EKG done. So they did just a quick snapshot which didn't make a whole lot of sense to me because one moment in time is only one moment in time and it's not going to tell you the whole story. Everything looked good there. I left and then I got a phone call saying that the doctor wanted to put a monitor on me just to have a bigger picture of what's happening over a longer period of time. So lucky me I got to go in and have this cute little I think it's called Zio something placed on me. It's here for at least a week. Actually I think it only has to be here for a week because I've had an episode since. I want to describe it as palpitations maybe not as intense as palpitations. So if I hadn't had another episode they'd want it on for two weeks. So I'm kind of glad I was able to replicate what I felt so I could take this off sooner because it's very itchy and you have to modify your showers as it's not waterproof. So basically I seem to find myself having issue when especially after if I've moved or if I've done exercise I'm okay but when I come to slow down and say I take a shower and I'm putting makeup on to get ready for the day that's when the issue kicks in. It's like if I'm standing still the blood is pooling towards my legs and my feet and all of a sudden my heart is working a lot harder to circulate the blood in my body. That's my best guess. Not a doctor but that's my best guess because those have been the times where I felt it and I become really short of breath and I can feel my heart like kick into extra high gear. So not the funnest but you know they can't all be smooth sailing. Every time I think about my pregnancy with Kai now I'm just like I had no idea how good I had it. I loved being pregnant with Kai and this pregnancy has been a bit of a struggle but I'm grateful nonetheless. So what's happening aside from all the drama at 22 to 24 weeks? I'm gonna give you guys this belly shot here. I'm technically like 24 and a half weeks at the time of me shooting this. I am so much bigger this time. My belly is so much bigger this time which is part of the reason why I think I'm struggling so much earlier on. I think my lung capacity is diminished already. I can hear myself working harder to breathe as I'm speaking to you guys and I'm like I still have 16 weeks to go. This is gonna be fun. The kicks are insanely strong already which is a beautiful thing. I can see this child through my clothing now punching moving all of this. I'm getting aches, more aches in the back, more aches in the hips. So my tip for you all is to ask your partner for nightly massages because that is what will get you through. Actually now that things have opened back up I'm going to go see an acupuncturist. I've heard amazing things about having acupuncture done while pregnant. I've never experienced it before but again I've had friends swear by it. So what I'll do if they allow me, I would love to take the camera in and just film some of it so you guys can kind of see the process if it's new to you and I can report back and just let you know like what my experience was before versus after and if I would recommend it. I think that would be fun. But anywho, that is my quick update for you guys. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them below and I will catch you in the very next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye!